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Depending on the boards archived there's a pretty good chance he doesn't have CP. Only /b/ (and I hear /sp/ as well but I never go there) really ever have child

Depending on the boards archived there's a pretty good chance he doesn't have CP. Only /b/ (and I hear /sp/ as well but I never go there) really ever have child porn, and then very very rarely and quickly deleted to the point that an archiver might not pick it up. Due to the sheer size and uselessness of a possible /b/ archive I kind of doubt there's anything bad.

hnaccy 9y ago
If his archive was automated it's basically guaranteed he's saved a fair bit of loli content. Not sure of the legality in Canada, but this is seems like a case where they'd railroad you for something they normally don't enforce, e.g., Chris Handley in the states. CP would not be unlikely even if he just archived "safe" boards like /a/, /tv/, and /g/.
- jstarfish 9y ago
  If he's scraping the softcore or hardcore boards (because nobody's archiving 4chan for its intellectual discussions), he's absolutely going to have more than a few under-18 subjects in there doing sexually explicit things. If the state can verify the age and identity of any of them, he's toast.
  - Anon1096 9y ago
    >nobody's scraping 4chan for its intellectual discussions You'd be surprised. There's quite a few archives out there just for keeping up board history and discussions.
  - swebs 9y ago
    >because nobody's archiving 4chan for its intellectual discussions There's plenty of good discussion as long as you stay away from /b/, /v/, and the porn boards. /diy/ always has interesting projects. /g/ seems to be the one tech board on the internet that takes consumer privacy seriously (Even HackerNews seems to give Microsoft a free pass in this regard)
pluma 9y ago
Fun fact: in Germany even "lolicon" (i.e. sexual drawings of prepubescent characters) count as child pornography and as far as I know they're tolerated on /b/. I'm hoping Canadian laws treat this differently but if he were German and they found anything like that in his archive, he'd be facing child pornography possession charges.

hnaccy 9y ago

If his archive was automated it's basically guaranteed he's saved a fair bit of loli content. Not sure of the legality in Canada, but this is seems like a case where they'd railroad you for something they normally don't enforce, e.g., Chris Handley in the states. CP would not be unlikely even if he just archived "safe" boards like /a/, /tv/, and /g/.

jstarfish 9y ago
If he's scraping the softcore or hardcore boards (because nobody's archiving 4chan for its intellectual discussions), he's absolutely going to have more than a few under-18 subjects in there doing sexually explicit things. If the state can verify the age and identity of any of them, he's toast.
- Anon1096 9y ago
  >nobody's scraping 4chan for its intellectual discussions You'd be surprised. There's quite a few archives out there just for keeping up board history and discussions.
- swebs 9y ago
  >because nobody's archiving 4chan for its intellectual discussions There's plenty of good discussion as long as you stay away from /b/, /v/, and the porn boards. /diy/ always has interesting projects. /g/ seems to be the one tech board on the internet that takes consumer privacy seriously (Even HackerNews seems to give Microsoft a free pass in this regard)

pluma 9y ago

Fun fact: in Germany even "lolicon" (i.e. sexual drawings of prepubescent characters) count as child pornography and as far as I know they're tolerated on /b/. I'm hoping Canadian laws treat this differently but if he were German and they found anything like that in his archive, he'd be facing child pornography possession charges.